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Christian Adams

OPINION - Cartoonists think every year can’t be as mad as the last. We’re always wrong

At the end of every year cartoonists put down their pens, lean back from their drawing boards and think — well, next year can’t be as crazy as this year was. And we’re always proved wrong.

Who could have predicted that 2023 would produce a scandalous tell-all book about the royal family, by a member of the royal family; a politician even more divisive than Matt Hancock entering the jungle; the Government ripping itself apart over a policy that affects literally only a few hundred asylum-seekers; an opposition that has a miraculously large lead in the polls despite having zero policies; and another horrific war, just as the Fallen were being remembered?

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